Polls have opened in 100 townships across the country, with the military claiming 52 percent turnout in the first round.

Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmars army, now reinforced by a unit notorious ...

Myanmar's civil war involves a range of different ethnic groups fighting the military. Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images While the United States talked military assistance and minerals with ...

Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...

Voting has resumed in Myanmar's multi-phase election, which the country's military junta is promoting as a return to ...

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BANGKOK — A helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s military crashed in a combat zone in the country’s north while returning from a mission to deliver supplies to army outposts, a state-run newspaper ...

June 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar troops have clashed with ethnic Kachin rebels near Chinese-built dams this week, threatening Chinese energy interests in the country. Here are some questions and answers ...

Despite a democratic opening and hopes for peace with the ethnic insurgencies in the northern hinterlands, horrific accounts of rights abuses continue to emerge from the multi-sided war over Burma’s ...

Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in the country's first general election since a takeover that installed a ...

Myanmar has resumed voting in the second round of its first general election in five years, expanding polling to additional ...